| Letters | 4 |
| Tilting at Windmills | 5 |
| The Political Puzzle | 9 |
| Barclay, John | |
| Why The Rich Don't Care | 11 |
| Burnham, Sophy | |
| Who's Who in the Carter Administration | 20 |
| The Real Big Government is in the States | 23 |
| A Report from Maryland | 24 |
| Edsall, Barry C. Rascovar, Thomas B. | |
| A Report from West Virginia | 28 |
| Haught, James A. | |
| Tidbits and Outrages | 32 |
| Jordan, George, and the Establishment | 37 |
| Lemann, Nicholas | |
| Memo of the Month | 48 |
| The Bureaucracy: The Cleverest Lobby of Them All | 49 |
| Reed, Leonard | |
| Where to Eat in Washington | 55 |
| Merrill, Jill | |
| Killing the Messenger: The Carter Administration and the Facts About Oil and Gas | 57 |
| BARTLETT, BRUCE | |
| Richard Reeves on Political Books | 61 |
| Political Book Notes | 63 |
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